Category: thoughts

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

Robert Doisneau

I am not interested in repetition. I don’t want to reach the point from where I wouldn’t know how to go further. It’s good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.

Josef Koudelka

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

Jonas Mekas

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.

Alexey Brodovitch

Anyone can take pictures. What’s difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That’s really where the work of the artist begins.

Lewis Baltz

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

Andy Warhol

With a camera like that you don’t believe you’re in the masterpiece business. It’s enough to be able to peck at the world.

Lee Friedlander